Will openBLAS plan to support INT8 or BF16 data type?

[Guobing Chen]

Int8 and BF16 are becoming popular in Machine learning (deep learning) domain as to facilitate quicker processing and smaller memory/disk footprint. Will openBLAS plan to support these 2 data type besides existing S/D/C/Z?

[Zhang Xianyi]

Hi Guobing,

I think I don't have any plan about Int8 or BF16 yet.

In next a few months, I am going to port OpenBLAS on RISC-V architecture.

Xianyi

Guobing Chen <guobin...@intel.com> 于2020年3月9日周一 下午3:07写道：

Int8 and BF16 are becoming popular in Machine learning (deep learning) domain as to facilitate quicker processing and smaller memory/disk footprint. Will openBLAS plan to support these 2 data type besides existing S/D/C/Z?

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[Guobing Chen]

Thanks for your quick response, Xianyi. As for 'don't have any plan' here you mean due to resource limitation or you don't think it is a good direction (to have INT8/BF16) for openBLAS? 

On Monday, March 9, 2020 at 4:37:50 PM UTC+8, Zhang Xianyi wrote:

Hi Guobing,

I think I don't have any plan about Int8 or BF16 yet.

In next a few months, I am going to port OpenBLAS on RISC-V architecture.

Xianyi

Guobing Chen <guobi...@intel.com> 于2020年3月9日周一 下午3:07写道：

Int8 and BF16 are becoming popular in Machine learning (deep learning) domain as to facilitate quicker processing and smaller memory/disk footprint. Will openBLAS plan to support these 2 data type besides existing S/D/C/Z?

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